Trust me we will be slotting them
You donāt think people will slot a high damage AoE nuke?
FS is already a āhigh damage AoE nukeā if you wanna call it that
we needed range, utility and faster burnout. thats all
we got none of that.
Why would FS need utility? Its job is do damage. If you want utility you have, IG/VG/BB to choose from. Confused why mages think FS should do the ranged AOE damage it does as well as utility all in one weapon lmfao.
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THIS 
BB certainly has a ton of dmg, but as a PvE player there is something I donāt quite understand. If people are dying to fire BB, why arenāt you using aversion and gems to mitigate?
Also, the bombs arenāt exactly hard to see coming either. BB is very predictable
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In a 1v1 setting sure itās easy to avoid. In larger scale combat it becomes much harder
Ok, I can see that, but folks are talking about one shot combos. I donāt see a BB successfully performing that in large scale battle and getting away unscathed
Basically all they got in the zerg poking zerg fights is cluster bomb, and while itās strong, itās CD is proportional
And there are plenty of ways to remove debuffs
Ya so there is this weird thing with EU players who think BB is only for one shotting in LA, while itās become Meta in the US servers in medium for awhile now.
Iāve seen BB/IG users who deal consistent 1-1.5 mil damage with it in wars, in medium. It will suffer from the fort changes, but almost every build will as well. With pretty much every other weapon being nerfed aside from BB it will naturally feel stronger next patch then it currently is
Bb is a little to much not matter what
Now the real question is if that aoe dmg in wars actually did anything or was it just padding. Thatās how FS kept getting nerfed, even though it didnāt need all of em.
BB certainly needs something to balance it out, but I donāt think a straight % dmg nerf is the way to go
A good BB isnāt padding, itās playing support for its group. Between Plagued Grenades and Bile Bomb it can be part of melting clumps.
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See, I forgot about plague grenades, last time I did any real pvp (wars or otherwise) the only disease was on infected throw lol
BB got indirect netf. 50% fortfiy that now does mitigate 50% dmg on light armor, will mitigate like 9% dmg Ā±
I think I actually hate bb more than greatsword itās 1a and 1b for me. Everyone been swapping to bb on live, kill squad bbs. To much. They have the most oppressive cc in the game in net shot a 7 sec slow with a 57 exhaust? Okā¦ even with freedoms it will take a couple seconds off and that can be countered by a cripple ring or armor. But still a 50 percent slow lasting that long? Cyclic line on spear is the only other 50 percent cc and that last 3 secondsā¦ and the bb has a massive exhaust to boot? Like my good agsā¦ why canāt you put it in line with cyclone slowā¦ Oh and itās get a 20 percent cd through tree and an ult that can reduce it by 50 percent. Making it a spamable skill. AND ITS SUPPER EASY TO LAND. Nothing better than 2 bbs net shot spamming you and you canāt play the damn game, sht even 1 net shot spammer bad od. Nothing annoys me more than not being able to move In this gameā¦ also you canāt even get close to them because the burst dmg is unreal comparable to that 1 shot ice spike sht from a year ago. We are literally going to be in that vg/ig meta from a year ago when everyone started leaving except itās going to be blunderbuss running wild.
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That very well may be just what it needs, since it definitely has too much survivability for itās output. Im looking forward to see how the fort changes will work out when it goes live.
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Ya in LA most builds are going to be dead though, will be severely outclassed by medium versions of the same builds in smaller scale PvP.
Time will tell if they will be viable in larger scale PvP.
Ya know, itās kinda funny that a fairly clear solution to roaming gangs of BBs would be the true range users(bow/musket) and in this upcoming patch they are nerfing the medium range viability of one of em.
Groups make for easy targets after all
I mean I donāt mind range nerfs. Think they were needed. But to not hit other range weapons like bb and fs. Makes no sense.